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Shkruar nga Peter DeLuca
We must act decisively now, strengthening integration at all levels.
Today we find ourselves at a turning point in history. We are living in a period of great change, uncertainty, and renewed challenges, which call upon us to strengthen and complete the process of European integration.
New conflicts, autocratic regimes are threatening our democracies, and calling into question fundamental rights and freedoms in our communities. Added to this is the wave of the internationalist far-right that is dominating public opinion and electoral results around the world, from the United States to Europe.
Today, multilateral institutions and organizations, which were painstakingly built in the post-war period, are under attack. But above all, what is under attack is Europe, its functioning at the domestic and international levels, but also its very existence.
Today, Europe is surrounded by new pitfalls, and threatened by new dangers. The balance on which we believed for decades that the world could be based is inexorably disappearing. Our challenges range from a war that is once again touching our borders to the epochal ones linked to climate change.
From the stalled engine of our economy, to the drama of poverty that is spreading, even among workers. Efforts at political, economic and social weakening require a response in line with the times in which we live.
As happened during the pandemic, Europe must find an extraordinary, unprecedented, courageous response, rediscovering the pioneering spirit of the EU's founding fathers. Completing the process of economic, financial and social integration is today an existential goal.
Strengthening Europe's strategic autonomy, with the commitment to reducing economic and industrial dependencies, but also to building a common security and defense policy, becomes an essential mission for protecting the competitiveness, well-being, development and social welfare model of our continent.
Because in the end, this is what it's all about. Figures, the economy, competition, productivity are not ends in themselves, but means to protect progress, freedom, and to preserve the European social model. We must mobilize quickly.
The time has come to show courage and ambition to defend our democracy, freedom and fundamental rights, which we can no longer take for granted and guaranteed forever. The challenge for progressive and democratic forces is to advance a determined commitment to national and community institutions, but also to give support, impetus, oxygen to the call to action, to public and popular mobilization, to resume the path that leads us towards the creation of the United States of Europe.
A broad, plural mobilization, not necessarily rigid in predetermined party schemes, but which has an ideal ambition and a common awareness, that of considering Europe as our common home, which must be protected and strengthened.
Europe was not born to deceive, but to save an entire continent after the horror of the Holocaust and racial laws. Europe does not limit freedoms, it is a garrison of freedom, rights and democracy. But be careful if history repeats itself, or even by staying in the same place.
From this perspective, it is essential above all that joint investments become structural, in the wake of the next-generation EU, to lay the foundations of a European industrial policy that accompanies innovation and transition with at least 800 billion euros of annual investments, including new joint debt.
It is essential that the SURE programme becomes structural, creating a true Pact on Social Progress, to reaffirm the European welfare model. Then it is time to build the health pillar and create a true Europe of health, along the path taken in response to the pandemic.
We must support the creation of a common fiscal capacity to finance European public goods, just as we must increase competition and independence in the transport, energy, telecommunications and digital sectors.
And finally, it is necessary to define a foreign policy for the EU that will face the challenges and a real common European defense. Faced with current challenges and threats, the time has come to pool investments and political commitments for Europe's security.
Not to become a war-monger, but to continue to be a continent that guarantees peace, especially by strengthening deterrence at such a delicate moment. Also, by overcoming the current vital challenges, related to the significant overall military spending caused by the wrong national actions of member states without coordination.
Europe won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012. In order to continue to best fulfill this fundamental task of its very existence, it is necessary to strengthen its strategic autonomy also in the field of security and defense.
To guarantee the stability of democracy and our social model, we need a decisive response on a European scale that stimulates and supports, with common funds, joint purchases, technological research and innovation, industrial policies, the creation of strategic infrastructures, systems, interoperability, European capabilities.
What we need is even more ambition and courage to build a common military force. We need to create European networks. We need to restart De Gasperi's project for the defense of Europe, as a necessary part of the federalist path of unification.
For a strong Europe, a protagonist on the international stage as a guarantor of peace, rights and freedoms. For a sovereign and economically and financially independent Europe. For a fair, social, inclusive and supportive Europe.
For the sake of the United States of Europe of the Ventotene project, we must act decisively now, strengthening integration at all levels. Because at stake is our present and our future. / Adapted from "Pamphlet" by " Huffington Post Italia"
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